If you are using the appearance of an existing character from another show or other type of medium, either come here to stake your claim in the character so nobody else can use their appearance or check to make sure nobody is currently using them.

Guidelines:

You don't have to claim a likeness to use it, but if you don't then others are free to use and claim it.

If you don't claim the appearance and someone else decides to do so, you will be required to find a new FC for your character.

Theoretically you may use a claimed likeness, but only if you receive permission from the claimant, and that claimant must post here to confirm you have their permission.

Under the circumstance that the claimant has not made a roleplay post in three months, their claim will be removed, and the likeness will accordingly be up for grabs. They may reclaim it at any time as long as it has not been claimed by another user.

You may not claim an FC belonging to a Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, or Disney character.

Some characters are iconic. Through large investments of time and effort from their players, they've found a permanent place within the history of the universe, and have played parts in many different tales and events all across the worlds. These characters have their identities ingrained in the lore of the site and on top of their likeness being recognized out-of-character, knowledge of it tends to be widespread in-character. Because of this, the players of characters like these have an additional option when it comes to claiming a specific appearance.

Members who have nine hundred posts or more on their account may opt to have a character of theirs listed under this section of historical likenesses. Claims of this nature are immune to the three-month rule; they're permanent and regardless of the user's current activity they will forever remain unchallenged. That being said, you can only make one of these claims per account, meaning that the only way to issue permanent claims on multiple FCs is to have multiple accounts which each fulfill the required post quota.